A grave

About the loss of someone I loved. I wrote in 2012 about a month after it happened

10.19.12

A pretty arrangement blossoms around

All colors that you admired

Your name on a grave

I was never ready to see

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Underneath the cold dirt lies nothing

Nothing could keep your fiesty spirit down

Your spirit, life, energy...

Is part of the wind, earth, sunshine

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Won't get to hold your hand

Hands that did such labor

Won't get to share your laughter

Humor that everyone loved

Won't get to hug you

A warmth only from a mother

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In memory, people visit a stone with flowers

A ritual/tradition of old

Perhaps comforting for some

I find other ways of healing

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Always told me to smile and be happy

I try- part of the process

When I smile- it is for you

To honor you even now

  In death...

I still seek to make you proud

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You told me I'd be okay

Won't get to share your laughter

You told me not to stop laughing

Won't get to hug you

You told me you would always love me

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In memory-

I will smile

I will laugh

I will love

I will succeed

--

At your grave, I was never ready to stand

You said I was grown and longer needed you

That is one thing you may have been wrong about

In everything you found the good

One day, I hope to be liike you

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I was never good at showing my feelings

How much I love you- now is known

I know how much one can love and be loved

As long as you're in my heart

You'll always be close to me

This is not the end...

Author's Note

from 2012

Reviews

[Lily Mae]

This is deeply creative and full of soul.. excellent write...xo

[Silver_water_dragon]

:) thank you so much

[Kelly Scheppers]

"Your name on a grave
I was never ready to see"

...how brilliantly stated and vividly felt!

[Silver_water_dragon]

Thank you for reviewing!